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Thursday, October 30, 2014

My apologizes, I've been absent again. At least it's not as long as last time. I got caught up on a few books, then my cable modem died so I had to purchase a new one, then get it set up with my internet provider.

I don't normally do very many seasonal pieces, but then I saw this one, and there are four more. I thought they were cute. And looking at the other three that goes with it, Dragon Love, Dragon Noel and Dragon Hoppy, and how small they are, I just couldn't resist.

I first changed the lettering for the "Boo" from regular black to the black high luster.

And so I added in colors that I found in my stash.

Then I had to buy two colors, I ran out of the light green, and I couldn't find my glow in the dark white, yep, the little ghost glows in the dark!

Now I just need to do the back-stitching and I'm not really in the mood to do it, so I'll finish it up next month.

Saturday, October 4, 2014

I, once again, had the desire to clean up my WIP page. This time I had some success! I pulled Nocturne out from it's drawer and within two nights I completed it, makes me wonder why I took so long to finally finish it.

It's always interesting going from 28 ct stitching to 14 ct. I always feel like the stitches are way too big, especially when I'm doing 14 ct on 28 ct. I start thinking, maybe I went over three instead of two. And toward the end I actually did on two stitches, but I caught that before I even crossed them.

And as I've been doing with this piece I've taken a picture one dragon at a time. First dragon:

Thursday, October 2, 2014

Look at me go! I'm trying to be a better blogger. Or at least write a few more posts than I have so far this year.

So I went onto the greens on the dragon, and her eyes. Oh, I also stitched the white, which is kind of hard to see. I decided to take a picture after I doubled the number of colors I had stitched, so here's 20 colors completed:

Then I finished up all the green, and did a random pink when I found I was missing two greens:

I just realized that I took this picture after I had doubled my color count again, now I've stitched 40 colors, and those 30 colors I stitched were only about 4% of the overall design.

I'm going back to fleshy colors, and maybe finishing the colors in her lips, at least until I get tired of fleshy colors and go to purples and blues in the dragon. The greens are really the only confetti heavy section of the piece, there are a few more spots here and there, but it should be smooth sailing from here.